Recueilli Quotes

#1. I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

Gwen John

#2. No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

Mary Somerville

#3. But she made his comics smell like roses. A whole field of them.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

Prince Andrew

#5. Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic.

Gustavo Dudamel

#6. He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Francis Atterbury

#7. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

#8. Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

Mark Lawrence

#9. While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.

Vir Das

#10. Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

Mason Cooley

#11. If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

Jack Kirby

#12. Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death.

Kevin Brooks

#13. Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

Joan Rivers

#14. Don't let other people tell you who you are.

Diane Sawyer